Professional Service & Activities

Editorial

Editor-in-Chief, H-France (www.h-france.net), 2021-present.

Corresponding Editor, Histoire, Économie et Société, 2014-present.

Editorial Board, French Historical Studies, 2010-13.

Referee / Evaluator

J. Russell Major Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association, 2022-24 (Chair, 2024).

Manuscript Referee, Yale UP, Cambridge UP, Oxford UP, Penn State UP, Routledge, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, Pearson, Hackett, Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation; French Historical Studies; History: Journal of the Historical Association; Sixteenth Century Journal; Law and History Review; French History; Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire; Histoire, Économie, et Société; William and Mary Quarterly; The Seventeenth Century.

External Reviewer, Vassar College History Department, 2021.

Advisory Board, Fiction and Film for Scholars of France, 2018-21.

Koren Article Prize Committee, Society for French Historical Studies, 2008-10. (Chair, 2010).

Book Review Solicitation Editor, H-France Review, 2007-10.

Habilitation à diriger des recherches Jury Member:

  • Université Charles de Gaulle (Lille III), 2019.
  • Sorbonne Université (Paris IV), 2023.

Tenure and/or Promotion Reviewer:

  • University of Oklahoma, 2023
  • Roosevelt College, 2023
  • Florida State University, 2022
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, 2020
  • Haverford College, 2017
  • Oberlin College, 2015

Grant/Fellowship Evaluator

  • CUNY-PSC Program, 2016.
  • Israel Science Foundation, 2016.
  • Fellowship Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2015.
  • Université de Genève, "Boursières d'excellence" program, 2013.
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008.

Conference Organizing and Participation

Annual Meeting Program Committee, Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2022.
Annual Meeting Program Committee, Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2012.
Local Arrangements Committee, Western Society for French History, Nov. 2011.

Roundtable Chair, “How Should H-France Support Digital Humanities Work? A Community Conversation,” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2024.

Session Chair, “Building Peace: Transitional Justice in Early Modern France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Oct. 2023.

Session Chair, “Varieties of Anti-Liberalism: Three Episodes in the Intellectual History of French Political Economy,” Society for French Historical Studies/Western Society for French History, Mar. 2023.

Roundtable Participant, “New Ways of Telling Stories: A Digital Humanities Roundtable,” Western Society for French History, Nov. 2022.

Session Chair and Commentator: "Race, Community, and Governance in the French Antilles before 1789," Western Society for French History, Nov. 2022.

Session Chair, “Fictions of Fatherhood and the Importance of Place in the Pre-Modern Francophone World,” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2022.

Roundtable Participant, “H-France Roundtable: Where Do We Go From Here?,” Society for French Historical Studies, Digital Humanities, Ways Forward: A Conference in Honor of David Kammerling Smith, Mar. 2021.

Commentator, “Questioning Authorities in Transatlantic Constitutions: Exploring American Legal Thought in the Eighteenth Century,” American Historical Association, Jan. 2021. [Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic]

Roundtable Participant, “Honoring the Life and Work of William Beik,” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2018.

Commentator, "Exploring the Mechanics of the Criminal Justice System, 1670-1800," French Historical Studies, Apr. 2017.

Session Chair, "The Language of 'Mission': Envoys, Enquiries, and Inquisitions in a Global French Context, 1600-1800," American Historical Association, Jan. 2014.

Commentator, "The Clientele of Law Courts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial Latin America," American Society for Legal History, Nov. 2013.

Session Chair and Commentator, “Early Modern Genres of Political Expertise,” Western Society for French History, October 2012.

Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles CA, Mar. 2012.

Session Chair, “Law, Gender, and Honor from the Old Regime to the Nineteenth Century.” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2012.

Local Arrangements Committee, Western Society for French History, Portland OR, Nov. 2011.

Session Chair, “On the Eve of the Enlightenment: Gender, Disenchantment, and Sociability.” Western Society for French History. Nov. 2011.

Commentator, “Beyond Theories of Sovereignty: Parlements and Local Politics in the Formation of the Early Modern French State.” Society for French Historical Studies, Feb. 2011.

Roundtable Participant, “Clients, Patrons and Brokers: A Discussion of Seventeenth Century History in Memory of Sharon Kettering.” Society for French Historical Studies, Feb. 2011.

Session Chair, “Confessional Promotion and Royal Authority,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, May 2009.

Plenary Session Participant, “Teaching French Colonial History.” Western Society for French History, Nov. 2008.

Roundtable Organizer and Participant, “Whither the Empire: Integrating the Colonies into Old Regime Courses.” Western Society for French History, Nov. 2008.

Session Chair, “History, Identity and Law in Early Modern Europe,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Oct. 2007.

Commentator, “The Politics of Urban Space Under French Absolutism.” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar., 2007.

Panel Co-Organizer, “Sovereignty in the Cities of Early Modern France.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Oct. 2006.

Commentator, “Revolutionary Political Culture,” Western Society for French History, Oct. 2006.

Panel Organizer, “Lawyers, the Law and Political Change in Eighteenth-Century Europe.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Apr. 2005.

Session Chair and Commentator, “Event and Representation in the Sixteenth Century.” Society for French Historical Studies, Apr. 2003.

Panel Organizer, “Monarchs and Magistrates: Urban Elites and Royal Authority in Early Modern France.” Society for French Historical Studies, Mar. 2000.

Panel Co-organizer, “Law, Municipal Ideology, and the State in Sixteenth-Century Europe.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Oct. 1997.

Other

Member of the Research Project, “Justice, Actions, États, Écritures en Europe du XVIe au XIXe siècle,” CNRS-Centre Roland Mousnier (UMR 8596), 2023-present.

Mock Fellowship Panel Participant, NEH Workshop, Lewis & Clark College, 8 Feb. 2011.

Participant, Mellon Faculty Research Seminar on Institutions, Reed College, Spring 2005.